Unmanned Aerial Systems

UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS

UAS

Rice Associates has added the eBee RTK, senseFly’s survey-grade mapping system to its “Innovation Toolbox” toenhance its surveying and photogrammetry capabilities. Innovations include the use of a built-in RTK-capable GlobalNavigation Satellite System (GNSS) antenna and the use ofsenseFly’s eMotion and PostFlight Terra 3D (powered by Pix4D) software to plan the mission and process the aerial images, respectively. The post-processing software can produce high accuracy point clouds, DSMs and orthomosaics. The eBee RTK can achieve 3 cm horizontal and 5 cm vertical accuracy with an expected level of accuracy of between one to three times ground sampling distances.